Fine-Tuning

Laura Solomon Library Services Manager

OPLIN

An Infopeople webinar Thursday, July 12, 2012

Seriously?

http://mashable.com/2011/10/21/facebook-infographic/

Small businesses

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Profile Page

Has friends Has fans (likes)

Can only go up to 5K friends

No limit on “likes”

No analytics Has Insights

Harder to promote Widgets available

ILLEGAL Legal

Profile Page

NOW what?

Reality sets in…

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2010 2012

Users followingbrands

Vanity URL

https://www.facebook.com/oplin.org#!/pages/Your-Public-Library/

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versus

http://www.facebook.com/oplin.org

Be complete!

Admin roles

Scheduling posts

What about Questions?

What about custom landing pages? What about custom landing pages?

What’s new in Timeline?

Timeline apps

Pinning & highlighting

Milestones

So…what WORKS?

Think more about

PHOTOS

http://www.dreamgrow.com/facebook-cheat-sheet-sizes-and-dimensions/

Use albums

Time it properly

  7 am EST   5 pm

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Length matters

1.  Post 2.  Comment 3.  Tell us

Use the right words

Focus on visual content

Change it up

Thank one fan in a really BIG way

Don’t be afraid of memes

Promote outside

of Facebook

Things that DON’T work

 Automating posts  Video/photo contest  “Like” blocking  Splitting locations

Working with Facebook Insights

Insights overview

Insights by post

Insights--Demographics

Metrics are about the long term

Facebook takes WORK

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